Anime fans on 2ch have been striving to identify the anime with the most impressive production values and highest animation quality, resulting in a selection of some of the most immaculately animated scenes ever – and not a cabbage in sight.

What the Hell is a Hitman Reborn scene doing there???!!! sorry but i dont think ANY weekly produced series has any place doing in there, truly good animation takes time and LOT of it, especially 2d and if it is hand drawn even longer (nowadays they fake a lot of animation whit cell shaded 3d models and there is vectorial animation, wich is a souped up version of flash animation that is used a LOT today, take a good look at Bakemonogatari and youll spot a lot of it)

Good Animation is really tricky because its not just technical merits but also artistic merits being weighed and those are IMPOSSIBLE to contabilize, there is artsy weird animation as in the madoka magica witches, there is crazy overblown animation as in redline and gurren lagann, there is realistic fluid animation as in Innocence or JinRoh, there is pretty but not entirely realistic animation as in ghibli films that is astounding, matter of fact if were gonna get technical Makoto shinkai movies dont have all that great animation per se, they have incredible backgrounds and art direction but the animation is just average, eva 2.22 THATs great animation, Redline is beyond belief good animation, my vote is for redline.

i never trust 2ch judgement of voting… their taste are the same with those Kimo-Ota taste. most of their vote are nothing but moe and moe and more moe! if not for moe, than mecha, mecha and mecha! they’re just a bunch of people that’s already gave up on reality!

Love to nominate the 11th episode of Serial Experiments Lain. The overall quality of animation in this series is shoddy, but the intro to this episode is truly a spectacle.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WRtlHZokbs
^starting at roughly 2:30

and actually, most of the witches in Madoka Magica. Though Shaft is one of the few studios that still pushes the envelope in terms of the medium. A lot of shows just use animation to depict a scene, but these guys love playing with composition and postproduction effects.

The lack of some of the Gundam 00 scenes in this list makes me ponder the IQ (or memory, as always) of the Japanese. The fact that half the episodes of Gundam 00’s second season where literally two to three times the size of a normal episode of any anime in terms of data while being the same, or lesser length (cut op’s/endings for bandwidth’s sake) is testimonial enough of the sheer amount of action occurring on screen in the episodes. I remember downloading them and being all like “Why the fuck are these files so large for this resolution…” Then watching the episodes “I see, this would be the exact reason.” MFW: 0.o

Naruto usually looks like total garbage, but at its best it has some of the best animation staff a fighting shonen has ever gotten. you know that “sasuke can see you” frame that everyone says is EPIC FAIL BAD ART or whatever, and the Naruto vs Sasuke fight with the weird faces? those two, and the Gaara vs Rock Lee fight, are all done by Norio Matsumoto, a genuinely amazing animator, and they all look great in motion.

Did I miss it or is there not a single mentioning of Hellsing Ultimate, Shigurui, Paprika, Vampire Hunter D – Bloodlust, etc.?

Some of the choices in the videos above make me question what they understand with immaculate animation. The DBZ for example is just repetition, how is this immaculate animation? It was addictive when I was 10, looking back at it, fucking terrible animation overall.

Screw K-ON and anyone who thinks it to be any good in any way! Moe is the crappiest style of anime there is and why the industry went to shit in the U.S.. Most of the Macross anime’s, Akira, FLCL, Evangelion’s, Kaleido Star, Gun Buster, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Inuyasha, & of course all the Studio Ghibli stuff are some of what I’d consider great animation. K-ON & High School DxD don’t even deserve to be mentioned next to the rest of the pack.

Clueless idiot. This isn’t a list of “good anime”, it’s about quality animation and production value, which K-On! has plenty of, “moe” or not. The style isn’t to your liking – so fucking what? That is NOT what this list is about.

maybe is becasuse K-ON characters are so easy to draw, and also, no action escenes, so the best animation K-ON can get is some escene with the girls walking at 23 frames per second………¿is that really concidered a good animation scene per se?

man damn right birdie the mighty got to be there , jesus christ that series blew my mind consistently especially the second series dont even get me started on how fucking amazing the time travelling was in it! Like it just sounded so fucking cool aww omg birdy the mighty is really immense. Cant wait to watch the second evangelion and man full metal brotherhood had some stunning scenes that fight with the tank MIND BLOWING.

considering the time, it was quite fucking amazing, i mean look at the fucking flow dammit! I can see fucking robots shoot their crazy ass lazers with giant explosions and shit, but they will never have the same sort of perspective manipulation that noein had.

I’m not sure how this writer can show off a 2ch-approved Hiroyuki Imaishi scene (cartoony, off-model and deformed as fuck) as something good and then link a bunch of “bad animation” posts filled with “EPIC FAIL QUALITY XD” frames handpicked by westerners, a lot of which are also intentionally off-model and from equally good scenes.

the Star Driver fight you linked by Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann/Dead Leaves/Panty & Stocking guy) is fucking FULL of off-model, deformed, super-cartoony frames and yet it’s great in motion. it’s silly to link that as an example of something good and then link a bunch of articles that single out individual frames from similarly super-dynamic, stylish scenes and scream ‘bad animation’.

I mean seriously, that Hunter x Hunter frame from one of the ‘bad animation’ articles? The Norio Matsumoto scene it’s from looks AMAZING in motion, just as good as the Star Driver one.

please don’t post those retarded “QUALITY XD” meme pictures that westerners who know nothing about animation bitch about, in an update about 2ch’s sakuga board, where people have at least SOME knowledge. I haven’t even seen that Ben-To scene but I’m already 99% sure that it’s from a super-fluid scene with subtle, intentional cartoony deformation and all but two of those Precure faces look fine.

no, not all, but Western anime fans GENERALLY have a really silly ideas of what makes good animation. going frame-by-frame trying to find odd looking drawings in the middle of a super-fluid action scene that looks AMAZING in motion is crazy, and yet so many weeaboos do it.

No Eureka Seven? That’s really suprising… the series’ animation in general is great and the animation in arial battles is absolutely superb. BONES in general has movie-like production values on their TV series.

Also, where the hell are the Miyazaki/Ghibli movies? Very few animated movies, anime, western, or otherwise even come close to the absurd levels of detail seen in those.

K-On actually has very high production value (yes, really) and deserves to be on the list. However, that particular clip used here doesn’t exactly portray that (and was no doubt picked for that exact reason).

while your list has some of my favorite animes, i have to admit they don’t fir in this category that well. Kara no Kyoukai was great but i felt it was somewhat static, same goes for Bakemonogatari. Cassher sisn i don’t really recall any special animation scenes.
evangelio on the other hand does have some very good animation, but it is present on the list.

GitS Innocence to date is the most complex using cgi many of the tiniest of details were animated.

OMG if you’re gonna include something as old as Cowboy BeBop you could of included 5 Centimeters per Second, the animation for that particular feature length animu was incomparably beautiful & poignant.

So their shopping carts are just frames where you put the hand-basket into it instead of having the very large baskets and baby seating. I bet they don’t have problems with homeless people stealing carts, but then the people have to buy less food and go more often. Understandable since they go by foot rather than by car.

one scene that was amazingly animated was when Amuro and Char meet for the first time in 8 years in the movie compilation of Zeta Gundam. But the movies had lots of recycled scenes from the original series so the quality is very inconsistent.

Indeed, if they’re not gonna differentiate between movie/OVA/TV then consequentially there shouldn’t even be a single TV anime in this list… also, while the movies and OVAs in this sure have amazing animation, there are quite a few movies and OVAs that deserve a spot here even more (all of which I can’t possibly list here)… what about Wings of Honneamise? Gunbuster? Eva Rebuild? Redline? etc…

Gunbuster 2 was one hell of a trip, i think it’s one of the best animes i have ever seen. and redline is simply the definition of a “cool” animation movie.
not that the rest of the films you mention is any less cool.

The first few Naruto episodes weren’t too bad but somewhere around episodes 20 to 100 Naruto became the epitome of shoddy, crappy, static, time wasting, multiple static reaction shots, 10 second teeth grittings, and panning and zooming over a static image. Did I mention static often enough? Naruto was an example of saving production costs through anti-animation. I stopped watching and have no idea if it improved or not.

for fuck’s sake. “with the help of computers” doesn’t necessarily mean “made with 3D models”, you can draw on a computer with a tablet just how you’d draw in real life. you can literally paint in photoshop with the right brushes.

yes but it kills that feeling traditional media has. they should start separating both medias in orde to preserve the first. i have seen good shows and movies with cgi, but they lack that speciall feeling old animes have.

Satonaka
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That OP of Sakura Taisen is not from a tv series, but was a GAME for the SEGA SATURN system and it was called -Sakura Taisen 3- or -Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris- where your character travels to paris to school some more hot crazy wenches again!
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It’s only on that Dead system so good luck in finding it!

@Satonaka
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That OP of Sakura Taisen is not from a tv series, but was a GAME for the SEGA SATURN system and it was called -Sakura Taisen 3- or -Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris- where your character travels to paris to school some more hot crazy bitches again!
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It’s only on that Dead system so good luck in finding it!

to Satonaka:
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That OP of Sakura Taisen is not from a tv series, but was a GAME for the SEGA SATURN system and it was called -Sakura Taisen 3- or -Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris- where your character travels to paris to school some more hot crazy bitches again!
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It’s only on that Dead system so good luck in finding it!

That being said… on the other end of the spectrum… what in the blue hell is the DxD ending doing there O_o

Compared to everything else on this ‘list’ that ending has no place there.

Back to the good stuff: Dear god that OP to Sakura Wars ( never seen any of it, havn’t gotten around yet) looks quite amazing, anyone know which series this is so I can try tracking it down? If there’s more than one of course, i know jack about the show >.<

I have to disagree – GitS Innocence was much more elaborate and used up lots of CGI to make many tiny details. Much of the secondary scenery had movement that other animu take for granted.

Why isn’t 5 Centimeters per Second included?
The cinematography that was animated into that feature animu was beautiful and poignant in the very least. The detail of the littlest things was incredible for the time they had to make it.